Timothy Albee is very well known in the visual effects industry for his studio work as well as his 7 best selling books (books on amazon here).

This video is designed to take new and intermediate animators through the 12 principals of animation as Timothy demystifies his animation techniques for you. Timothy supplies you with the cover character "Jake" and walks you through the "Foundations of Character Animation".

This video is more than 3.5 hours of instruction and covers keyframing, using controls, life drawing, timing, squash and stretch, gesture, arc of motion, drag, follow through, anticipation and more.